My Life in Houses

Margaret Forster

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Langue:
Ebook en anglais
ISBN:
9781448192571
Date de parution:
05-11-14
Editeur:
Vintage Digital
Format:
Ebook
Format Détaillé:
EPUB
Protection digitale:
Adobe DRM

Description

‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.’

So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.